Challenge your friends with Plus+ Games
One of the things I love about many of the iPhone apps out there is the way you can interact with others via online multi-player with Cocoto Kart, for example, or games that have Plus+ built in. Plus+ is a social play network for the iPhone and iPod touch, bringing you, your friends and the rest of the world together so you can all challenge eachother.
One of my recently bought games, Skee-Ball by Freeverse Inc., has Plus+ built-in. Skee-Ball is super addictive – a game I used to love playing at the funfair as a child. It’s totally relived in this fantastic game which is just 59p/99c on iTunes. With Plus+ being a feature of this app, I can see what score my friends have on Skee-Ball and compete against them, aswell as check out their Awards and what other Plus+ enabled games they are playing…
With another Plus+ enabled game, Charadium, not only can I once again challenge my friends in a similar way as Skee-Ball, but I can also play against them (and the entire world) as it’s a pictionary multi-player game. If I choose to play against my Plus+ friends only then I can create a room…
…where I can then invite my friends to join me for a game of Charadium…
Charadium is priced 59p in the App Store. Other games that have the Plus+ feature are Rolando 1 & 2, Worms, Topple 2 and many more.
Feel free to add me to your Plus+ friends list: purplelime
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I'm a thirty-something Geordie Lass with a passion for Macs. I love playing with new gadgets, Mac software and iPhone/iPad apps.
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This looks so much fun! Currently in the middle of downloading Charadium, so we must play against each other sometime Sam.
My name on it is hihiitschris.
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Hey Christina – added you back. This is fun
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Does Plus+ connect to Twitter or Facebook to post in-game progression? OpenFeint features this.
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Hi Scott.
I hadn’t heard about OpenFeint before. I’ll check the OF enabled games out – thanks!
No, Plus+ doesn’t allow you to post your progress on social sites.